Illustration: Roman Klonek's back with a sumptuous show of amazing woodcuts
It’s almost been a full calendar year since we last checked in with Polish, German-based illustrator Roman Klonek but his new show in Hamburg gives us the perfect excuse to revisit this master of the woodcut. There’s a dreamlike quality running throughout his new series, with odd animalistic figures, strange unidentifiable objects and totemistic patterns combining to form scenes (or in the case of Fat of the Land above, entire worlds) which have unsettling echoes of the creations of our subconscious. Occasionally little snippets of what looks like Cyrillic text add to the otherworldly experience, but on the whole Roman is happy to let his magisterial image-making speak for itself.
Roman Klonek: Woodprints runs at Feinkunst Krueger in Hamburg from July 6 until July 27.
Roman Klonek: Running up the Tsukiyama Hill
Roman Klonek: Taganrok
Roman Klonek: Fedjka
Roman Klonek: Shotokan karate school
Roman Klonek: Le tigre
Roman Klonek: Little wolf
Roman Klonek: On the fly
Roman Klonek: Play save
Roman Klonek: Cuddly bonnet
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.